rawlife’s BodyBlog

   I just got done consuming quite a bit of my new favorite sugar free dish-garlic and onions topped with a bit of ground lamb, parsley, and olive oil.  Ha, more like the other way around, but seriously I put in so much garlic my mouth is still numb.  I had to take breaks while eating it just to shake off the burn in my mouth.  The reason I’m doing the garlic and onions is to take care of a pesky candida issue I have been experiencing for the past 6 months or so after very stupidly taking antibiotics for something I really shouldn’t have.  My symptoms are really mild in comparison to a lot of the people you read about with candida, but nonetheless I want them gone.  I am tired of hearing my stomach grumbling all the time, that’s for sure!  The basic idea is that you try to eliminate or kill of the fungal candida while at the same time repopulating your intestinal flora with probiotics or probiotic foods.

   Funny how things work out though: despite the discomfort, this has been one of the best things that has ever happened to me.  I realize now how addicted I have always been to sugar; how I’ve always self medicated with it in one capacity or another.  I also now realize that it’s real likely that I’ve had candida overgrowth for years without recognizing it simply because my symptoms, prior to the bout of antibiotics, were never anything thought of as out of the ordinary.  In addition to that, I’ve also come to realize that I am not, or I was not, the only one in that boat.  Now, listening to the things that people tell me about themselves and just generally observing people, I’ve come to feel as though quite a number of people have this same problem and don’t even know it.  Dandruff, bad breath, rashes, yellow toe nails, gas, body odor-these are all sign of excess bacterial growth of some kind.  Look into it.  I never did, now I have. 

   Because of the candida, because of the nutritional changes I’ve made, I am mentally clearer and, I believe, physically healthier than I’ve ever been.  This makes me believe that this was all in the cards.  Strangely, in addition to that, I started making my own probiotics-Kombucha at the exact same time I got candida-it was like life gave me the problem and the solution right then and there.  I think it was definitely in the cards. 

      Moving on though, the only other time I felt this drastic of a change in my mental clarity in such a short period of time was when I went raw-it was like the flood gates of free thought opened.  Thought free from obcession; much calmer, more reasonable thinking.  To this day, I still seem actually almost physically incapable of getting as obcessed over anything as I did when I was younger.  There is a kind of multi-faceted marraige between the physical, mental, and spiritual that should not be ignored-when one get’s healthier, the other’s respond.  Anyway needless to say, cutting sugar out of my diet has opened the floodgates again-even though the only sugars I was eating were fruits and un-heated honey.  I am thinking clearer and I am feeling cleaner-literally, I feel lighter and as though everything is running much smoother on the inside.  It’s a great feeling.  Just thought I’d give everyone a bit more personal of an update.

    In other news, I HIT the legs today.  First I did a lateral walk, directly into a plate run, right into the adductor machine, right into single legged ATG ball squats.  Huge pump, lungs burned, heart pounded out of the chest.  Loved every second. And what I loved most was the challenge of getting through it.

    You should give the plate run a try-put a plate on the floor and, with a body low to the ground and taking long strides, push it as far and as fast as you can.  Really tough!  I knew I couldn’t leave HIT for too long.  HIT is my baby and I love her. 

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